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Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, also known as M21, unveiled “Nonfigurative” Exhibition on November 20 to welcome its first anniversary. Showing 67 pieces of painting, video and photograph works created by 58 Chinese artists around the world, the exhibition involved creations spanning over 30 years, hence a feast of art that collects masterpieces of different periods.
According to Deputy Director Li Feng of M21, they spent nearly a year in preparing for the exhibition, including early masterpieces of established artists and new creations of young ones. In the way of expression, a nonfigurative exhibition is aimed at deconstructing the traditional narrative mode and encouraging artists to break through the constraints of form and content, thus fully exerting their imagination for creation.

As for paintings, there’s an oil painting “Camellia amid the War” showing a female soldier holding a camellia during Sino-Vietnamese War to limelight the humanity despite the warring environment. The paintings Fission, Ultimate State and The Cross, respectively created by Xu Lei, Meng Luding and Gu Liming during 1980s, not only explore abstract painting for visual expression but try different types painting materials, such as tea, rice paper and medicinal materials, thus enlarging the overall scope of painting. And among many new-media works, the video artwork “The Face” by Li Yongbin revolves around showing one’s own appearance to seek the possible forms of self-reflection.

Reports say that the exhibition will last till February 28 next year, opened free to the public.

The West Bund Art & Design fair is the first large-scale international art and design fair in China, and it has attracted top galleries from around the world. It took place at West Bund Art Center on the Xuhui Waterfront from 8–13 September 2015 and building on last year’s first year achievements, the aim is to propel contemporary visual art in China even further.

Co-organised by Shanghai West Bund Development Group Co., and the renowned artist Zhou Tiehai, the international fair West Bund Art & Design is the first of its type in China. The art fair designates West Bund Art Center, which was transformed from a workshop of the former Shanghai Aircraft Manufacturing Factory, as its site. The Fair aims to create a second-to‐none art platform, hosting galleries, design agencies, existing and new collectors, and art lovers to enjoy art. The design component of the fair was held throughout the West Bund Cultural Corridor and included Atelier Deshaus, Archi-Union, Atelier Z+, Atelier GOM, One Design Inc., TM Studio and UNDEF/NE.

A background: The West Bund initiative is a cluster of five art centres and museums with two more on the way. It started with a five-year plan in 2010 to open 3,500 museums in China by 2015, but the mission was reached in just half the time. By 2012 there were already 3,866 museums in the country and naturally Shanghai, with its wealth of industrial buildings and developers eager to support culture as a marketing tool, were in the forefront. The West Bund area, once an industrial zone, includes a number of rehabilitated industrial structures, including a coal conveying platform (Long Museum West Bund), airplane hangars (West Bund Art Center and YUZ Museum) and giant oil tanks (The Oil Tank Art and Performance Center, planned to open in 2017) – all preserved to showcase the city’s cultural growth.

Walking around the fair, we found quite a lot of galleries that we recognise from Hong Kong, such as Pearl Lam Fine Arts Gallery, White Cube, Ben Brown Fine Arts & Platform China. However, we shall focus on, and show you some images from, some of the mainland galleries from Shanghai and Beijing at the fair.

2015年9月8日-13日，备受瞩目的2015西岸艺术与设计博览会如约而至，将在位于上海徐汇滨江龙腾大道2555号的西岸艺术中心盛大开幕。作为国内首个融合了顶尖当代艺术与设计的国际性大型博览会，2015西岸艺术与设计博览会关注当下最重要和活跃的当代艺术家及其作品，精选全球30余家口碑与实力俱佳的国内外优秀画廊与设计机构参展，旨在传达“艺术引领生活，设计走进生活”的博览会理念。

《安邸AD》作为2015西岸艺术与设计博览会的战略合作家居设计媒体，继去年“《安邸AD》艺术设计论坛”的成功推出之后，今年将携两个项目重磅亮相2015西岸艺术与设计博览会，和到场观众进行更加深入地艺术交流。

在9月8日-13日的六天展期中，《安邸AD》携手施勇共同打造ART of LIVING“也是一种态度”收藏展。本次展览汇集艺术精英丁乙、王令杰+郝经芳、王兴伟、王思顺、贝歇尔夫妇、双飞小组、孙逊、老者步加希金、曲丰国、李明、刘月、何岸、陆垒、林科+杨俊岭、张恩利、郑焕、荒木经维、郭洪蔚、胡子、胡柳、赵洋、洪磊、徐震、柴一皿、索-勒维特、黄芳翎+金锋、蔡东东、廖国核等代表作品，诠释艺术品与家居之间的完美平衡。

收藏并非金钱的简单堆砌，而是一种对生活的见解和态度。收藏家的兴趣爱好、风格、创造力全在这一个家里，对材料，光线，色彩以及对自己生活习惯的独特理解，成为了一种态度，自己的态度。我们希望借此展览，将“家”这个艺术家们另一份为自己、为生活所进行的创作呈现于观众眼前，通过收藏家的态度和视角，去传递和表达艺术与生活之间，一直意义深远的关系。

L’association “plus vite“ vous propose de vivre une expérience inédite autour de la lumière
et de l’art contemporain.
Au programme, une déambulation dans la commune de Dieuze pour découvrir
des surprises lumineuses et des oeuvres.

Avec Alain Colardelle,
les vidéos d’Emilien Adage, Julie-Christine Fortier et Christian Lebrat,
les oeuvres de Marco Godinho (prêt du FRAC Lorraine) et de Paul Oudin,
“Le prototype improvisé de type nuage“ de Yona Friedman (prêt du FRAC Lorraine),
et la collection “plus vite“ : D. Arnaud, G. Baxter, T. Boutonnier, P Brateau, A. Brégeaut,
C. Closky, H. Di Rosa, M. Egana, Q. Faucompré, E. Ferrer, D. Frouin-Guillery, P. Garenc,
P-A Gette, J. Gindre, S. Gouju, J. Hao & L. Wang, J. Hubaut, Knapfla, J-N. Laszlo,
A. Le Marec, D. Leroi, CM. Linden, Mardi Noir, A. Muntadas, J. Nédélec, A. Pertusot,
F. Pétrovitch, E. Régent, P-A. Remy, J. Sanchez, M. Séguin, Taroop & Glabel,
L. Van Malderen, T. Verbeke, …

Dieuze, le 3 octobre 2015 à partir de 20h30.
Rendez-vous, place du Marché devant la fontaine. Un plan vous sera remis.

M Art Center is ready to present a new exhibition “A Round Sun A Dot”, which is the first solo show of Lingjie Wang and Jingfang Hao in China. The young couple is based in France and usually focuses their works on the nature. And nature is their starting point to explore the basic concept of “things” and the relationships with human. The close observation of the nature, also further study and development of the characteristics and the techniques of the materials have been wonderfully demonstrated through their works in space installation, paintings, videos and sculptures. The exhibition will be open at 3 p.m. on 11th July until 10th September.

The curator Hélène Doub once describes the artists and their works as “excellent alliance of contraries” (exaltante alliance des contraires). Sharing a background of engineering, the two artists, on one hand, are interested in western conceptual art, and strongly attracted and influenced by its ideology, which is a mix of intuition and reasoning. On the other, they have inherited the sensitive approach and poetic expression rooted in the concepts of “somethingness” and “nothingness” of Chinese philosophy. All these have made every piece of their works show a principal dialogue (un principe dialogique) between the two extremes, the reasoning perception and the accurate arrangement – it is conceptual, yet emotional; natural, beautiful and mysterious, but as complicated as science.

As for the theme of the exhibition, the artists give their explanation as follows: look down from high up in the air, us ourselves, our lives, the earth, even the sun are just like tiny dusts, like dots. As grains of sand on the beach, these dots have been washed smooth by the waves of time. We attempt to look for something subtle but glittering among them. Yet it is so indistinct that as if it has never existed.

Lingjie Wang and Jingfang Hao studied industrial design in their early years, and then went to France to study and practice contemporary art. They are currently based in France and Shanghai.

Among the limited contains the infinite, and the infinite must exist through the limited, the complicated concept is concentrated in a group exhibition.

About the curator

Fu Xiaodong is an independent curator and young critic based in Beijing. She is the Art Director of Space Station – an art center founded by her in 2009 to promote experimental art programs – and the Executive Chief Editor of the magazine – Fine Arts Literature. She once taught in the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art and worked as an editor for many professional art magazines, such as Mei Yuan, Contemporary Art News and Art China. She was also the Art Director of T Space in Beijing. Since 2003, she has organized several contemporary art exhibitions for art museums, art centers, galleries and other art institutions in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, including: “Homesickness – Memory and Virtual Reality”, “Chinese Freedom : Contemporary Artistic Text in the Post-Totalitarianism Society”, “NEW VISTA – The Phenomenon of Post-Tradition in Contemporary Art”, “New Interface”, “Removing The Ladder”, “Insomnia” photographs exhibition, “Blackboard”, “Out of Love”, and others. In addition, she has been writing for various medias and been invited to be the judge for several international young artists competitions. Fu Xiaodong was born in Shenyang in 1977. She graduated from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art with a master degree and then went to study Art History and Theory in China Central Academy of Fine Arts. She was invited to the Art Institute of Peking University as a visiting scholar and to 24 HR ART as a visiting curator in Australia. Currently, she is working on the “Triennial of Fine Arts Literature” and the contemporary art section of “Get it louder”.

Écrire (le geste renversé, révolté), dessiner (le geste descriptif), danser (le geste pur), faire (le geste de la technique et du travail)… Sont autant de gestes, de types de mouvements du corps, porteurs ou non de signification, que les propositions artistiques de l’année 2015 viendront explorer.

Entre février et juin 2015, deux expositions et un événement s’arrêtent sur les gestes exécutés par les ouvriers, par les artistes, ou encore par les machines pour mieux mettre en exergue leurs sens, leurs chorégraphies, leurs poésies, leurs violences… Venez les découvrir !

La mécanique des gestes
28 FEVRIER – 11 AVRIL 2015

Artistes : Guillaume Barborini, Edith Dekyndt, Joséphine Kaeppelin, Marianne Mispelaëre, Vera Molnar, Julien Prévieux, et le Collectif Images-en-transit.

Vernissage, vendredi 27 février à 18h30

“La mécanique des gestes” est une exposition collective autour des interactions, des influences nées d’un dialogue homme-machine. Les œuvres présentées sont donc des témoignages des interférences : entre l’homme et la machine, la machine et le travail, l’homme et le travail ou encore l’homme, la machine et le travail. Elle s’arrête alors sur les gestes exécutés par les ouvriers, par les artistes ou encore par les machines pour mieux mettre en exergue leurs sens, leurs chorégraphies, leurs poésies, leurs violences. Ne souhaitant aucunement être exhaustive, cette exposition présente des œuvres où gestes et mécanique se rencontrent, s’opposent, s’influencent…

For more info:
http://www.theatredeprivas.com/expositions/dun-geste-a-lautre
http://www.theatredeprivas.com/expositions/la-mecanique-des-gestes